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Table test

Year	Name	Position	Career	Percent approval
1936	Ty Cobb	CF	1905-1928	98.23%
	Walter Johnson	P	1907-1927	83.63%
	Christy Mathewson	P	1900-1916	90.71%
	Babe Ruth	RF	1914-1935	95.13%
	Honus Wagner	SS	1897-1917	95.13%
1937	Morgan Bulkeley	Pioneer		†
	Ban Johnson	Pioneer		†
	Nap Lajoie	2B	1896-1916	83.58%
	Connie Mack	Mgr	1894-1950	†
	John McGraw	Mgr	1899, 1901-1932	†
	Tris Speaker	CF	1907-1928	82.09%
	George Wright	Pioneer		†
	Cy Young	P	1890-1911	76.12%
1938	Pete Alexander	P	1911-1929	80.92%
	Alexander Cartwright	Pioneer		†
	Henry Chadwick	Pioneer		†
1939	Cap Anson	1B	1871-1897	†
	Eddie Collins	2B	1906-1930	77.74%
	Charles Comiskey	Pioneer		†
	Candy Cummings	Pioneer		†
	Buck Ewing	C	1880-1897	†
	Lou Gehrig	1B	1923-1939
	Willie Keeler	RF	1892-1910	75.55%
	Charles Radbourn	P	1881-1891	†
	George Sisler	1B	1915-1922, 1928-1930	85.77%
	Albert Spalding	Pioneer		†
1942	Rogers Hornsby	2B	1915-1937	78.11%
1944	Kenesaw Mountain Landis	Pioneer		†
1945	Roger Bresnahan	C	1897, 1900-1915	†
	Dan Brouthers	1B	1879-1896, 1904	†
	Fred Clarke	LF	1894-1915	†
	Jimmy Collins	3B	1895-1908	†
	Ed Delahanty	LF	1888-1903	†
	Hugh Duffy	CF	1888-1906	†
	Hughie Jennings	SS	1891-1918	†
	King Kelly	RF	1878-1893	†
	Jim O'Rourke	LF	1872-1904	†
	Wilbert Robinson	Mgr	1902, 1914-1931	†
1946	Jesse Burkett	LF	1890-1905	†
	Frank Chance	1B	1898-1914	†
	Jack Chesbro	P	1899-1909	†
	Johnny Evers	2B	1902-1917, 1917, 1922	†
	Clark Griffith	Pioneer		†
	Tommy McCarthy	RF	1884-1896	†
	Joe McGinnity	P	1899-1908	†
	Eddie Plank	P	1901-1917	†
	Joe Tinker	SS	1902-1916	†
	Rube Waddell	P	1897, 1899-1910	†
	Ed Walsh	P	1904-1917	†
1947	Mickey Cochrane	C	1925-1937	79.5%
	Frankie Frisch	2B	1919-1937	84.47%
	Lefty Grove	P	1925-1941	76.4%
	Carl Hubbell	P	1928-1943	86.96%
1948	Herb Pennock	P	1912-1934	77.69%
	Pie Traynor	3B	1920-1935, 1937	76.86%
1949	Mordecai Brown	P	1903-1916	†
	Charlie Gehringer	2B	1924-1942	85.03%
	Kid Nichols	P	1890-1901, 1904-1906	†
1951	Jimmie Foxx	1B	1925-1942, 1944-1945	79.2%
	Mel Ott	RF	1926-1947	87.17%
1952	Harry Heilmann	RF	1914, 1916-1931	86.75%
	Paul Waner	RF	1926-1940	83.33%
1953	Ed Barrow	Pioneer		†
	Chief Bender	P	1903-1917, 1925	†
	Tommy Connolly	Umpire		†
	Dizzy Dean	P	1930, 1932-1941, 1947	79.17%
	Bill Klem	Umpire		†
	Al Simmons	LF	1924-1941, 1943-1944	75.38%
	Bobby Wallace	SS	1894-1918	†
	Harry Wright	Pioneer		†
1954	Bill Dickey	C	1928-1943, 1946	80.16%
	Rabbit Maranville	SS	1912-1933, 1935	82.94%
	Bill Terry	1B	1923-1936	77.38%
1955	Frank Baker	3B	1908-1914, 1916-1919, 1921-1922	†
	Joe DiMaggio	CF	1936-1942, 1946-1951	88.84%
	Gabby Hartnett	C	1922-1941	77.69%
	Ted Lyons	P	1923-1942, 1946	86.45%
	Ray Schalk	C	1912-1929	†
	Dazzy Vance	P	1915, 1918,1922-1935	81.67%
1956	Joe Cronin	SS	1926-1945	78.76%
	Hank Greenberg	1B	1930, 1933-1941, 1945-1947	84.97%
1957	Sam Crawford	RF	1899-1917	†
	Joe McCarthy	Mgr	1926-1946, 1948-1950	†
1959	Zack Wheat	LF	1909-1927	†
1961	Max Carey	CF	1910-1929	†
	Billy Hamilton	CF	1888-1901	†
1962	Bob Feller	P	1936-1941, 1945-1956	93.75%
	Bill McKechnie	Mgr	1915, 1922-1926, 1928-1946	†
	Jackie Robinson	2B	1945, 1947-1956	77.5%
	Edd Roush	CF	1913-1929, 1931	†
1963	John Clarkson	P	1882, 1884-1894	†
	Elmer Flick	RF	1898-1910	†
	Sam Rice	RF	1915-1934	†
	Eppa Rixey	P	1912-1917, 1919-1933	†
1964	Luke Appling	SS	1930-1943, 1945-1950	84%
	Red Faber	P	1914-1933	†
	Burleigh Grimes	P	1916-1934	†
	Miller Huggins	Mgr	1913-1929	†
	Tim Keefe	P	1880-1893	†
	Heinie Manush	LF	1923-1939	†
	John Montgomery Ward	SS	1878-1894	†
1965	Pud Galvin	P	1875, 1879-1892	†
1966	Casey Stengel	Mgr	1934-1936, 1938-1943, 1946-1960, 1962-1965	†
	Ted Williams	LF	1939-1942, 1946-1960	93.38%
1967	Branch Rickey	Pioneer		†
	Red Ruffing	P	1924-1942, 1945-1947	86.93%
	Lloyd Waner	CF	1927-1942, 1944-1945	†
1968	Kiki Cuyler	RF	1921-1938	†
	Goose Goslin	LF	1921-1938	†
	Joe Medwick	LF	1932-1948	84.81%
1969	Roy Campanella	C	1948-1957	79.41%
	Stan Coveleski	P	1912, 1916-1928	†
	Waite Hoyt	P	1918-1938	†
	Stan Musial	LF	1941-1944, 1946-1963	93.24%

Table is much easier to read and I suggest that it be made the main article. Also perhaps a definition of what a builder is?say1988 19:12, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

I absolutely agree! KLinch (talk) 21:34, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Members

They are not "members" until they are inducted in the summer. Gwynn and Ripken should be removed until that time.Kinston eagle 01:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See my response at Talk:List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame (alphabetical). MisfitToys 02:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photographs

I think that there should be a photo of each of the members of the first induction class, currently Ruth has a picture. Timpcrk87 02:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in initially selecting photos I was trying to include a range of figures from different eras, and hoped that they would appear on the page roughly even with their election year. (I did all that quite a while ago, so there have probably been some good photos added to the site since then.) MisfitToys 03:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Any reason why the first photo has a finger in it? Can't we do better than that?

Teams

I think it'd be great if we could add what team each player was inducted as, how feasible is this? Redwolf24 (talk) 00:01, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done--Muboshgu (talk) 02:24, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! Redwolf24 (talk) 11:16, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Andre Dawson's team has yet to be decided. I'm removing the Expos tag until it's official. Mcrabb23 (talk) 00:49, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Clemente

Shouldn't he be listed as elected in his first year of eligibility?

I know they kind of bent the rules in his case, so it wasn't really the same procedure. But in the strictest technical sense, he was elected at the very first opportunity. 99.140.175.108 (talk) 05:03, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How does the Hall itself define the situation? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:07, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Inline Citations for HOF references have changed

The Baseball Hall of Fame has changed their web layout and therefore the links to the player pages have changed. To update the links correctly should the date accessed also be changed?

Current:

|align="center"|[[Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1963|1963]]||{{sortname|Sam|Rice}}||[[Right fielder|RF]]||[[Minnesota Twins|Washington Senators]]||1915–1934||VC||{{sort|-1|{{center|—{{Ref|1|1}}}}}} ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers/detail.jsp?playerId=121137|title=The Hall of Famers: Sam Rice|publisher=National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|accessdate=October 10, 2009}}</ref>

Proposed Change:

|align="center"|[[Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1963|1963]]||{{sortname|Sam|Rice}}||[[Right fielder|RF]]||[[Minnesota Twins|Washington Senators]]||1915–1934||VC||{{sort|-1|{{center|—{{Ref|1|1}}}}}} ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://baseballhall.org/hof/rice-sam|title=The Hall of Famers: Sam Rice|publisher=National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|accessdate=May 28, 2010}}</ref> --Mark.aubrey (talk) 14:58, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nationality of Members

I had inserted the nationalities of the Hall of Famers, as the sport is growing increasingly more diverse in ethnicity, and this is the formatting used in other international sports, such as soccer. I know that at least Muboshgu is against the theory, so I thought I'd open it up to a broader discussion. yuristache (talk) 11:48, July 23, 2010 (UTC)

I'm glad you brought it here instead of engaging in an edit war. I was going to suggest to you that you should bring it to the talk page. I'm not against the inclusion of the flag icons per se, but as this article has gone through rigorous examinations, I figure there should be consensus for any change like that. I'll go along with whatever that consensus is. --Muboshgu (talk) 03:55, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Edit wars are nothing more than a waste of time. I realize that it looks like just American flags down the page for the most part, but it is forethought for the members from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Cuba and Panama that are likely to emerge in the very near future. Looking ahead to the next five years of eligible candidates, between one-third and one-half have non-United State backgrounds; this also reflects on the current makeup of the game today in the MLB. I could see delaying the implementation of nationalities on the page for a few years until it becomes more striking, but it could also be implemented immediately and then maintained over time. yuristache (talk) 12:11, July 24, 2010 (UTC)

Hmm...at present there's, how many non-Americans? Clemente, Cepeda, Aparicio, Marichal, Perez, Carew, some Cubans in the Negro Leagues, and a few early Brits? I guess there's a bunch who will get in, but mostly not for several years - Alomar is the only non-American likely to get in in the near future, no? john k (talk) 16:58, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of oldest Baseball Hall of Fame members (2nd nomination)

FYI, I mentioned merging the above article (at AfD) in with this one. If any of the article's caretakers have reason to object to this feel free to rebut me at the AfD. Them From Space 17:58, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Barry Larkin

Barry Larkin is now in the HOF. Deletion of my work will consitute limiting my free speach and I WILL SUE those responsible. 69.126.207.62 (talk) 19:08, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sue? Really? He may have been voted in, but he isn't inducted until the summer. Call your lawyer if you feel the need. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:09, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done, I'll find out who you are using your ISP number and billing address! You are blocking the inclusion of Barry Larkin because he is black. You are a racist! 69.126.207.62 (talk) 19:15, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stop your stupid threats or you'll be blocked. And the announcements haven't been made yet today. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:17, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He already was blocked Funnyfarmofdoom _{(talk to me)} 19:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:34, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And it's not the first time he's leveled that empty threat:[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:37, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Now it's official. If the IP hadn't been so obtuse, he could have posted it himself. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:21, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

The inductees from the AAGPBL should be added to this page: there are currently (2019) 11 players. See All-American Girls Professional Baseball League § National Women's Baseball Hall of Fame inductees for a list of names & dates. KLinch (talk) 21:31, 18 September 2019 (UTC

They are not members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The National Women's Baseball Hall of Fame apparently had a website which has now expired, but which has no affiliation to the actual National Baseball Hall of Fame. Even though the Hall has an AABPBL exhibit, no players from the AAGPBL have ever been elected to the National Baseball HoF. Penale52 (talk) 11:37, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Class of 2020

Where is the class of 2020? Wolf O'Donnel (talk) 21:52, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]